Deep-Sea Biodiversity Pattern and Scale

Informationen zum Autor Michael A. Rex is Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Research Associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Ron J. Etter is Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Klappentext Rex and Etter present the first synthesis of patterns and causes of biodiversity in organisms that dwell in the vast sediment ecosystem of ocean floor. They offer a new understanding of marine biodiversity that will be of general interest to ecologists and is crucial to responsible exploitation of natural resources at the deep-sea floor. Zusammenfassung Rex and Etter present the first synthesis of patterns and causes of biodiversity in organisms that dwell in the vast sediment ecosystem of ocean floor. They offer a new understanding of marine biodiversity that will be of general interest to ecologists and is crucial to responsible exploitation of natural resources at the deep-sea floor.

Product details

• Authors: Michael A. Etter Rex, Michael A. Rex, Ron J. Etter, Michael Rex
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 20.02.2010
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
• EAN: 9780674036079
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03607-9
• Pages: 368
• Subjects: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography; Marine Biology; Oceanography (seas and oceans); Oceanography (seas)